BRYAN- BARON BRYAN

Burke’s Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages 1883.

This is a direct copy from the above publication and is typed by Eardley Bryan on 8th February 2000.


By Writ of Summons, dated 25 November 1350

Lineage


In 29th of HENRY III.,

GUY DE BRIAN, whose chief seat was in the marches of Wales, received command to assist the Earl of Gloucester against the Welch; and in the 42nd of the same reign, he had a second military summons for a similar service. We find him subsequently, however, arrayed under the baronial banner, and constituted after the victory of his party, at Lewes, governor of the castles of KARDIGAN and KERMERDYN, but he soon afterwards returned to his allegiance, and was one of the sureties (51st HENRY III.) for Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford, that that nobleman should thenceforward deport himself peaceably, and abide by the dictum of Kenilworth, for the redemption of his lands.  This Guy de Brian, m twice:  one of his wives being Eve, only dau. and heiress of Henry de Traci, and had by her an only dau, Maud, m to Nicholas Martin, Baron of Kemes.  By the other wife, Guy de Bryan left at his decease a son.

SIR GUY DE BRYAN, who, in the 4th EDWARD III., was constituted governor of the castle of Haverford, but he was found next year to be of unsound mind - when an agreement was made, that the Barony of Chastel Walweyn should at once come into possession of his son GUOYEN, upon his undertaking to provide for his two sisters from the revenue thereof. This

GUOYEN DE BRYAN, thus invested with the Barony of Chastel-Walweyn, served in the Scottish wars, in the 11th of EDWARD III., and in consideration of his special services, had an annuity of £40 granted him by the king, out of the exchequer, for life.  In the 15th of the same reign, he was made governor of St. Briavel’s Castle, and warden of the forest of Dene, co. Gloucester; and from the 16th to the 20th he was engaged in the French wars.  He d. in 1350 and was s. by his son,

GUY DE BRYAN, who became a person of considerable note.  About the time of his father’s death he was standard-bearer to King EDWARD III., in the celebrated fight with the French at Calais, and deporting himself with great valour upon that occasion, he had a grant of 200 marks per annum, out of the exchequer, for life.  He was also constituted governor of St. Briavel’s Castle, and warden of the forest of Dene; and was summoned to parliament as a BARON from 25 November, 1350, to 6 December 1389.  In 1354 his lordship was one of the ambassadors to the court of Rome to procure the papal ratification of a league, then made, between the Kings of England and France; the next year, he attended King EDWARD in his expedition to France, when he was made a banneret, and he continued for several years subsequently in the French wars.  In 1361 he was again accredited upon a mission of importance to the holy see, and being some years afterwards once more engaged against the French, he was made admiral of the king’s fleet, a command renewed to his lordship in the next year (44th EDWARD III), and he was soon after elected a knight of the Garter.  In the reign of RICHARD II., Lord Bryan also served against the French, and he was in the expedition made to Ireland, with Edward Mortimer, Earl of March.  His lordship m. Elizabeth, dau. of William de Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, and widow of Hugh le Despenser, by whom (with two younger sons, who d. issueless), he had,

GUY, who d. in the lifetime of his father, leaving issue,

 PHILIPPA, m. 1st, to John Devereux, and 2ndly, to Sir Henry le Scrope, Knt., but d.s.p. 8th HENRY IV.

 ELIZABETH, m. to Sir Robert Lovell, Knt., and had an only daughter and heiress.

 MAUD LOVELL, who m. 1st John Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel, and had issue,

 HUMPHREY, EARL OF ARUNDEL, d.s.p.
 
 Her ladyship m. 2ndly, Sir Richard Stafford, and had a dau.,

 AVICE, m. to James, Butler, Earl of Ormonde, and d.s.p. in 1456.

His lordship d. in 1390 leaving his two grand-daus., Philippa, then twelve, and Elizabeth, nine years of age, his co-heirs, between whom the BARONY OF BRYAN fell into ABEYANCE, and it became EXTINCT at the decease of Avice, COUNTESS OF ORMONDE in 1456.

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